Kaine stumping for Trivedi

The top man in the Democratic Party is coming to Pennsylvania to pitch in for congressional hopeful Manan Trivedi.

Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine will be in Philadelphia Thursday, where he will headline a fundraiser for the 6th District candidate before he joins a meeting of local Asian-American leaders. For Kaine, it’s part of a tour he’s doing to help Asian-American and Indian-American candidates. Kaine will also be joined by Congressman Mike Honda (D-Calif.),…

September 1, 2010 at 9:12 am | Comments (7)

LEFTOVERS: Corbett hits back, CQ on Kanjo cash, endorsements & jobs in the 6th

The nonstop tax attacks from Democrat Dan Onorato must finally be getting under gubernatorial rival Tom Corbett’s skin, because his campaign, which ordinarily doesn’t seem so concerned with winning the daily news cycle, is starting to throw a couple punches back here or there.

After Onorato spent a second consecutive day hitting Corbett on the subject of taxes, Corbett’s campaign e-mailed reporters a list Wednesday of all…

August 25, 2010 at 9:12 pm | Comments (0)

Pols chime in on Iraq

With Thursday marking the official withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq, Pennsylvania’s political candidates were issuing the expected stream of statements.

“I think people will look back at this war as an unnecessary one,” Democrat Joe Sestak, the former Navy Admiral and current Senate candidate, said on MSNBC. “One that we unfortunately harmed our national security fabric as we have lost our focus where the real challenge was and that was in Afghanistan where we…

August 20, 2010 at 9:20 am | Comments (16)

LEFTOVERS: More Toomey stuff, Cook on the 8th & 10th, vets for Gerlach

You know that enduring image of a room full of monkeys on typewriters? Well, somewhere in Washington, the Democratic Party must have a roomful of monkeys looking back at every word Pat Toomey ever said as a congressman.

OK, not that research interns are monkeys. But the party is obviously working hard on this, because it keeps dredging up old videos of the Republican Senate nominee talking about derivatives. We already reported on full story

August 18, 2010 at 11:46 pm | Comments (11)

LEFTOVERS: Trivedi strikes back, Rendell the pundit, get ready to laugh

The feuding continued Monday in the 6th Congressional District, when Democrat Manan Trivedi rounded up some military veterans to speak out against Congressman Jim Gerlach (R-6) in a new Web video.

You might remember that last week Gerlach called out Trivedi for not having lived in the suburban Philadelphia district for years. For some of that time, Trivedi was a Navy doctor in Iraq. So Trivedi’s campaign called it a slight against his military service.…

August 9, 2010 at 10:15 pm | Comments (3)

Gerlach challenges Trivedi’s medical, local credentials

In his nascent political career, Democrat Manan Trivedi has built his political identity on being a local doctor who was “born and raised” in the 6th Congressional District. Now, three months before Election Day, incumbent Republican Jim Gerlach is mounting a concerted effort to call those credentials into question, deploying a cache of opposition research to make the case that Trivedi has been less than honest with voters in the suburban Philadelphia district.

The effort,…

August 4, 2010 at 3:59 pm | Comments (41)

LEFTOVERS: Chamber’s new ad, cross-party support, another Boehner event

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is escalating its air war against Democrat Joe Sestak with a second TV ad that ties the Senate candidate to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The Chamber formally unveiled the 30-second spot Monday.

You’ll recall that Sestak’s campaign briefly got a couple Pittsburgh stations to remove the Chamber’s first ad because of the difference between 100 percent and 97 percent, a decision that was quickly reversed.

That…

August 2, 2010 at 11:05 pm | Comments (1)

Trivedi makes a play on immigration

Democrat Manan Trivedi waded into the simmering immigration debate Wednesday, calling for stepped up investigations into companies that hire illegal workers and singling out a suburban Philadelphia industrial contractor that has been accused of the practice.

The statement from his campaign, coming as emotions on the immigration issue are running high, appeared to be Trivedi’s first play for moderate and even conservative voters since he won the 6th District primary in May. In doing so,…

July 28, 2010 at 4:42 pm | Comments (7)

LEFTOVERS: Rendell on Obama, Gerlach gives to NRCC, vulnerable seats

President Obama is about to go on “The View”—but Gov. Ed Rendell thinks that’s not such a good idea because the president should only do “serious shows.”

“I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren’t pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency,” Rendell said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

We’re assuming Rendell’s rule doesn’t apply to governors, considering that the former Philadelphia mayor is…

July 27, 2010 at 3:44 pm | Comments (7)

Gerlach leads money race, but Trivedi on the move

Congressman Jim Gerlach (R-6) is continuing to rebuild his campaign coffers after an aborted gubernatorial run, and has raised more than $1 million since deciding to seek reelection early this year. But he has also spent heavily, and after Democrat Manan Trivedi had by far his best fundraising period of the campaign, the money race is the 6th Congressional District is surprisingly close.

Gerlach still holds a formidable lead, with $541,000…

July 15, 2010 at 6:45 pm | Comments (13)